{"id":748,"date":"2013-05-19T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2013-06-01T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T17:10:08","slug":"stoneyford-10km-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/stoneyford-10km-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoneyford 10km Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

In flying form these days after a few quick races, so I entered the Stoneyford (Kilkenny) 10km with high hopes of bettering last years race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I arrived in Stoneyford in good time, and managed a decent warm up, although my only slight worry was the fact my left ankle has been acting up a little recently so I was trying my best to monitor it, in the warm runs.<\/p>\n

Due to the layout of the initial start line, which runs up the village main street and then back down again, I was determined to find a good starting position. I did and really the next thing to get clear in my mind was to pace myself from the start, which simply isn’t easy to do !<\/p>\n

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The first 1.5km was good, then I hit the long up hill stretch out of the village, I felt I was tipping along fine until the 40 min pace runner cam flying by me and then I knew two things, one I had started too quick again and two at the 3 km mark I was starting to slow from that early quick pace.<\/p>\n

I found my stride and took on the hills as best I could, I know I still have to do some training work in regards to hills, I’m just not achieving the right pace on them. There was a great down hill stint at the 6km mark, however the 7.5km mark hill that came up next was really tough ! There was a lady that passed me at this stage, but she was great in giving encouragement as she passed, which really helped as I pushed towards the end goal.<\/p>\n

The last stint of the run was super fast, mostly down hill, although there was one chap on a real flyer past me at this last stage, but never the less I was feeling good coming into the finishing line area.<\/p>\n

Beating 43:35 from last year was the target and as I looked at the big digital clock coming into the finish I was over the moon 42 something was on clock, I could do it, I could break it and sure enough from the official time sheet [pdf]<\/a> I grabbed a time of 42:52.<\/p>\n

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A full 40 secs better and not only that but broke the 44 minute mark, I was really, really happy with that run, not that the picture shows it !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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